the flying geeks

- Cassidy (about the spiders in Corpse Bride)
What I did on my Blogging Vacation:
In September we started school, becoming masters of morning rushes and maximizing potential sleeping hours. Being in school feels a lot like being a pageant winner. I imagine everyone adoring me and cheering me as I wave dutifully from my float […]

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Dad belongs in California. He is a California Man. With his long blond hair and his thick mustache eking down his chin he went west, cruising on his motorcycle from Bloomington, Indiana all the way to the golden, gleaming, welcoming West Coast.
He is easy and rational, not wishy-washy like some of the too-medicated, too-wealthy, or […]

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I caught a glimpse of my neighbor, a moppy haired boy, riding his bike past my house. He’s a smart kid, a little small for his age, but all confidence and cleverness and coolness. A special boy, you know? When he should have been a toddler, he was very likely reading box scores and memorizing […]

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The dogs walk funny on the new floors in the entry and dining room, stiff-legged and slow like they’re afraid of sliding off the Canyon Maple laminate and out into space, if they let too much claw touch the floor. No doubt it’s a well founded worry; my dogs are savants.
I’m exhilarated by the […]

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